William Kellogg is the former CEO of the department store chain, Kohl's. He became chief executive after working as a store manager and taking over the company with partners John Herma and Jay Baker in a 1986 management buyout. The 40-store chain only in Wisconsin at the time, but now has 1,067 stores in 49 states. The company went public in 1992 and Kellogg stepped down as CEO in 1999. He holds more than $450 million in Kohl's stock and also owns a stake in used car conglomerate, CarMax.

In afternoon trading on Thursday, Utilities stocks are the best performing sector, up 0.6%. Within that group, Wisconsin Energy (NYSE: WEC) and DTE Energy (NYSE: DTE) are two of the day’s stand-outs, showing a gain of 1.1% and 1.1%, respectively. Among utilities ETFs, one ETF following the sector is the Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF (AMEX: read »

Shareholders of Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK) looking to boost their income beyond the stock’s 2.4% annualized dividend yield can sell the April 2015 covered call at the $110 strike and collect the premium based on the $5.20 bid, which annualizes to an additional 11.5% rate of return against the current stock price (at Stock Options read »

In afternoon trading on Monday, Utilities stocks are the best performing sector, higher by 0.3%. Within that group, Ameren (NYSE: AEE) and Wisconsin Energy (NYSE: WEC) are two large stocks leading the way, showing a gain of 1.8% and 1.3%, respectively. Among utilities ETFs, one ETF following the sector is the Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF read »

We screened 1,190 U.S.-listed companies with at least $1 billion in sales in 27 industries for the obvious metrics: sales growth, return on capital, debt to total capital, earnings outlook and stock market returns. Here you see the best of the best, by our criteria. How much did current management contribute? We measured the return for read »

56% of enterprise executives say 10% or more of their growth will be related to analytics in 2014. By 2019, 81% of senior executives see analytics being a major contributor to 10% or more of their companies’ growth.

Analytics are also making major contributions to the U.S. and European economies. 61% of senior executives in read »

The most recent short interest data has been released by the NASDAQ for the 02/13/2015 settlement date, which shows a 1,241,594 share increase in total short interest for Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), to 6,384,026, an increase of 24.14% since 01/30/2015. Total short interest is just one way to look at short data; another metric that we read »

If 2015 was all about financial institutions realizing that the technology behind Bitcoin — often called blockchain — will at least make their business more efficient and potentially shrink it, 2016 has set off a race among incumbents to be one of the first to market with a blockchain product. But the biggest question they have faced is: read »

Just when I think I’ve seen it all, Indian Motorcycle surprises me again. The new 2016 Indian Springfield adds another potent bike to the company’s portfolio, and it might be the best one yet. A quick review, in case you haven’t been following Indian’s resurrection closely. The original Indian Motocycle (the “R” came later) was founded in 1901 read »

In his annual letter to shareholders in 2015 Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, warned the firm that “Silicon Valley is coming” – for the banking industry. What he was referring to were financial technology startups (known as “fintech“) which are proliferating, encompassing a wide variety of technologies to help improve services. Now a new, read »

The best city to find a job this summer is located in New York state — but it’s not New York City. It’s Albany, the state’s capital on the banks of the Hudson River. One of the oldest continuous settlements among the original 13 colonies, Albany today exudes both history and modernity. Back in the 19th century, Seth Wheeler invented and patented read »

The most recent short interest data has just been released for the 06/15/2016 settlement date, and we here at Dividend Channel have sifted through this fresh data and screened out these five S&P 500 stocks. A metric we find particularly useful when comparing short interest data is the “days to cover” metric because it considers both the read »

More than 100 community banks and credit unions, plus several CPA firms and lawyers, have joined a coalition to develop golden contracts for the three technology vendors who dominate the U.S. market for core banking systems — FIS, Fiserv and Jack Henry. CSI and D+H also provide core systems, but they play a smaller role.